Global Activism - Ruth Reitan

This Comprehensive Study Traces The Transnationalization Of Activist Networks, Analyzing Their Changing Compositions And Characters And Examining The Roles Played By The World Social Forum In This Process. Comparing Four Of The Largest Global Networks Targeting The 'neoliberal Triumvirate' Of The World Bank, The Imf And The World Trade Organization: The Jubilee Anti-debt Campaigners Via Campesina Peasant Farmers Our World Is Not For book And The Anarchistic Peoples' Global Action. Written By A Scholar-activist, The Book Highlights That Despite Their Diversity, These Collective Actors Follow A Similar Globalizing Path And That Networks In Which Solidarity Is Based On A Shared Identity Perceived As Threatened By Neoliberal Change Are Gaining Strength.